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Last week was rather busy with the following important list of the latest and greatest downloads which have gone live from Rational Support since March 1st; presented below to help you find the fixes you need and stay up to date with your Rational products.... and don't forget to check out the downloads tag to see the fixes you may have missed:

What? Agile is proven in the IT domain and is enjoying rapid adoption in the product and embedded systems space. But being successful with agile in this domain presents different challenges such as integrating teams, large-scale complexity and communicating the benefits to management. There are some agile practices which can be leveraged to address these concerns. Continuous integration and test driven development can help with finding defects early and getting to done with the right solution more quickly. To build management engagement, an additional step needed is to map typical agile metrics to measures that are actionable for management.

Join Marty Bakal, Embedded Agile and Electronics Industry, Offering Manager, IBM Rational, in this webcast as he explains how to use these approaches to deliver success in agile product and systems development.

Both Vijay Sankar and Andy Gurd have tirelessly spent the past month taking you back to school on requirements. If you missed it, or just want a refresher, take a look at their work with the entire Requirements Management 101 series here:

The next session is on April 5. Vishy Ramaswamy, Senior Technical Staff Member and Design Manager Server Architect for Rational Software Architect and Rational Rhapsody, will open a discussion about agile architecture. More details and web conference information are available HERE.

IBM Rational Team ConcertIBM Rational Team Concert, based on the Jazz platform, now supports any plan, any process, any platform. New formal planning templates support traditional project phases, while new risk management capabilities can be used by any traditional, agile or hybrid team. With a single release for all platforms, simple role-based user licensing, no charge for the server software, and new flexible pricing models, you are free to mix and match deployments to suit your particular environments. Rational Team Concert is free for up to 10 developers.

IBM Rational RhapsodyThe IBM Rational Rhapsody software is available in different editions to help systems engineers and developers of embedded software analyze, design, develop, test, and deliver embedded, real-time systems and software.

We are pleased to feature Contributing Author Fabio Castiglioni:Fabio Castiglioni is an Executive IT Architect with IBM Sales and Distribution in Italy. He has 30 years of experience in IT, 13 in development labs where he held technical and management positions in international projects. Earlier in his career, Fabio was Technical Director for research projects on object-oriented technologies, Senior IT Architect in major integration projects, and Technical Leader for the Government Industry for IBM South Europe. Fabio is one of the teachers of Component Modeling classes for IBM architects and has published several articles on the subject of nonfunctional requirements.

Table of contents: 0:00 Introduction to Rational Adapter for HP ALM1:07 Demonstration scenario2:07 Link HP ALM test folder to RTC plan while in RTC3:15 Add test case while in RTC 4:48 View a defect while in RTC 5:24 Link a defect to a plan item while in RTC 5:52 Associate a change set to a defect while in RTC

Here is one of the queries that was put across to me (Sumant Renukarya) by one of our clients using IBM Rational Team Concert; a question that was a bit like a puzzle:

'Where can I find a specific Apache Tomcat patch for AIX server? An AIX specific patch is not available for download'.

Though it sounded like a simple FAQ, it had to be answered judiciously as the number of AIX servers which were being patched, were in the range of 90 to 100!

After thorough research and brainstorming, it was confirmed that there is no separate installer for different flavours of UNIX, for Apache Tomcat server. Essentially, you need to download and use the default installer available for the single flavour of UNIX from the Apache Tomcat website, which serves for AIX as well.

Here is a Sample Scenario:An issue was reported with Apache Tomcat Release bundled with Jazz V4.0.0.1 and there was a need to upgrade the patch of Apache Tomcat server from the default 7.0.25 to 7.0.34. This was for an AIX server installation of the Apache Tomcat server, bundled with IBM Rational Team Concert.

Summary: Starting with Version 1.0, IBM® Rational Team Concert has supported the scrum project management approach. Over the years since, both this collaborative software and its support for scrum and agile teams have improved dramatically. This article, updated for Version 4.0.1, replaces previous articles and explains how to use RTC effectively within a scrum team. Part 1 walks you through setting up your project and team and filling your first product backlog.

Summary: Starting with Version 1.0, IBM® Rational Team Concert has supported the scrum project management approach. Over the years since, both this collaborative software and its support for scrum and agile teams have improved dramatically. This article, updated for Version 4.0.1, replaces previous articles and explains how to use Rational Team Concert effectively within a scrum team. Part 2 uses a hands-on example to explain how to plan and run your first sprint.

About the author: Millard Ellingsworth lives in the hills west of Portland, Oregon, where he works on developing the IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management community, improving how teams work together to build software that matters. During the small pockets of free time that leaves him, he divides his attention between playing golf, noodling on the guitar, woodworking, and tinkering with Android development. You can follow him on Twitter as@millard3 and on Google+.

Here is an excellent playlist curated by our friends in IBM Rational Education highlighting valuable content surrounding OSLC, beginning with a great "Getting Started with OSLC" video:

OSLC defines a small but important set of methods for applications (or components thereof) to interact with each other. Complicated interfaces that impose a lot of requirements onto clients are unlikely to be used and are an obstacle on the way to the desired level of integration. So simplicity, stability, and standards compliance are key for such an interface, and are the driving factors behind OSLC. It shouldn't take much more than an HTTP client and an XML or JSON parser to use the interface. Resource representations must be stable and self-explanatory; assumptions and out-of-band knowledge imposed on clients must be kept to a minimum. And it shouldn't be a big effort to implement the interface.

Hot off the reporting presses here in Rational Support, here are the top twenty technotes used in February to help solve the PMRs you reported. As always, these are taken directly from our PMR reports and tabulated to help you solve the same issues which you may be encountering:

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This week is a rather short, but important list of the latest and greatest downloads which have gone live from Rational Support since February 12th; presented below to help you find the fixes you need and stay up to date with your Rational products.... and don't forget to check out the downloads tag to see the fixes you may have missed:

About this community- Members of this group discuss aspects of product and systems engineering from concept to disposal as they relate to the IBM offerings. Topics are focused on, but not limited to, systems, complex systems, systems of systems, and sub-systems all the way down to embedded software.

How do I join?If you have IBM developerWorks ID, click Join this Group on the community home page. If you do not have IBM developerWorks ID, register with IBM developerWorks and join the ALM community with easy three steps:

It's been a while since we've highlighted some of the other blogs here on dW (and elsewhere around the internet) that talk about topics relevant to Rational Support clients. So, here are a few of the latest posts from those great sources of information and help from the thought leaders themselves...

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The ALM Community is planning the following ALM Office Hour events for March and April:

Is it better to deploy IBM Rational Team Concert incrementally or all at once?Event Date/Time: March 8, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time) Are you gearing to adopt or you have already successfully adopted IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC)? Join us to discuss some successful RTC adoption patterns based on customer experiences. You will learn about tips and tricks on what has worked well for others when introducing a new set of development tools to your teams. This discussion will be led by Rolf Nelson, Senior Product Manager for IBM Rational Team Concert.

Agile ArchitectureEvent Date/Time: April 5th, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST) Agile development is a time boxed iterative approach that encourages rapid and flexible response to change through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams and customers. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary architecture and design and incremental delivery of software to achieve the earliest possible benefit based upon value, risk, priority and necessity. A well functioning, agile team works with just enough process to get the job done but to achieve real productivity improvements and continuously deliver on their objectives, they need sufficient technological infrastructure, or what some have termed "Architectural Runway."

Make sure you email, tweet, and/or blog about these excellent upcoming ALM events!

In an effort to keep our systems up to date and as functional for you as possible, we will be undergoing scheduled maintenance starting tomorrow February 23rd at 9pm EST and completing at 5am EST on Sunday the 24th.

During this eight hour time frame: Support Portal Customers will be unable to retrieve support documents, and search engines (both internal and external to IBM) will show links to previously indexed content, but when a link is clicked, they will get an “our apologies” page during the stated outage time frame.

If you receive any "our apologies" notices during this time frame, I'd recommend using the Google Cache version from the search results of google.com if available. Otherwise, you can still open a PMR using the Service Requests & PMRs link via the Support Portal tabs for direct assistance from a technical support engineer.

Are you curious about How DOORS Supported the Curiosity Rover? Back by popular demand from Orange County RUG's 'Rocket Science with Rational' event!

Today! February 21, 2013, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET

Register Now to learn how IBM Rational software development tools are used in cutting edge rocket science applications, including the Mars Curiosity rover launch and operations! Learn how NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used IBM Rational DOORS to create, verify and report on some 16,000 requirements for the launch and ongoing operations of the Mars Curiosity rover.

In this session, JPL guest speaker Tracy Van Houten shares insights into DOORS use for the management of these complex requirements, which involved multiple levels and hundreds of engineers to achieve success. Space is limited, so register now for this exclusive event!

Author a simple report in Rational Publishing Engine v1.2- This video describes how author a simple report in RPE v1.2. It shows how to build a simple template in Document Studio, and how to run it in a document specification to check the output of the queries. The data source used is DOORS, but the steps are applicable to any data source.